Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing And Nineteenth-Century Culture

Daub provides the first in-depth study of four-hand piano playing as both a musical and a cultural phenomenon. He argues that through the newly emergent forms of dissemination that became possible in the nineteenth century, and in concert with the ever more popular piano, four-hand piano playing became a central organising institution of nineteenth-century home culture. In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them.

• | Author: Adrian Daub
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199981779
• | ISBN-13: 9780199981779